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say it: KRED-uht
credit is a noun and verb meaning "approval". It is pronounced /ˈkɹɛdət/ — KRED-uht. It carries 13 recorded senses.
approval
“give her recognition for trying”
“he was given credit for his work”
“give her credit for trying”
money available for a client to borrow
an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items
used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise
“she already had several performances to her credit”
arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services
recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours
a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
“the student's essay failed to list several important citations”
“the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book”
“the article includes mention of similar clinical cases”
an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for credit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.